Desmond Martin (9/15/2014) - Athlete Awards - Wayne State University Athletics

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Warrior of the Week

Desmond Martin

Award

Warrior of the Week
Week Of

9/15/2014
Sport

Football
Bio

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Senior captain running back Desmond Martin (Redford, Mich. / Thurston) was named GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week after leading the football team to a 41-31 win over #13 Carson-Newman. Martin set career-highs for rushing attempts (30), rushing yards (235) and rushing touchdowns (3) with two of his three scores coming in the decisive fourth quarter as WSU turned a 31-27 deficit into a 41-31 victory. Martin's 30 carries were the first time an opposing tailback rushed that many times against CNU since Northern Colorado's Billy Holmes ran 30 times for 136 yards in the 1996 national title game. His 235 rushing yards were the most allowed by CNU to an opponent since Elon's Bobby Hedrick gained 252 yards on 36 carries on Nov. 17, 1979 (12,720 days, 408 games). In terms of the WSU record book, Martin's 235 rushing yards were the 13th highest total with Joique Bell having seven of the top 12 all-time marks (ranging from 252 to 318). The other five totals were by Toney Davis (326), Randy Holmes (314), A.J. Vaughn (271), Joe Gough (258) and Mike Stankovich (237).

Athlete Awards
Date	Athlete	Sport
3/23/2015	Zuzanna Sobczak	Women's Fencing
3/16/2015	Soren Holm	Men's Swimming & Diving
3/9/2015	Ziad Elsissy	Men's Fencing
3/2/2015	Kayla Balfour	Women's Track & Field
2/23/2015	Clark Bishop	Men's Basketball
2/16/2015	Dylan Szegedi	Men's Swimming & Diving
2/9/2015	Shareta Brown	Women's Basketball
2/2/2015	Julie Saint-Cricq	Women's Fencing
1/26/2015	Chelsea Johnson	Women's Track & Field
1/19/2015	Piotr Jachowicz	Men's Swimming & Diving
1/12/2015	Kristina Novichenko	Women's Swimming & Diving
1/5/2015	Shareta Brown	Women's Basketball
12/15/2014	Michael Lewis	Men's Basketball
12/8/2014	Shareta Brown	Women's Basketball
12/1/2014	Lauren Gagnon	Women's Cross Country
11/17/2014	Destiny Lavita-Stephens	Women's Basketball
11/10/2014	Sean Guinane	Football
11/3/2014	Elly Maleski	Women's Swimming & Diving
10/28/2014	Carl Roscoe	Football
10/20/2014	Anne Li Briand	Women's Tennis